Gunnery exercises take place in the Coral Sea near New Caledonia from 0100 to 0900 on 5 October within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E.
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 2841/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-10-01 16:15Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-10-01 06:43Z. First collected 2026-10-01 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-02 02:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -22.117, 167.450 with a 10.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 01:00Z | 2026-10-05 09:00Z | — | 8 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-10-01 06:43Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-05 10:00Z
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -22.117, 167.450 · r 10.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-10-01 19:02Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. NEW CALEDONIA. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 050100Z TO 050900Z OCT IN AREA WITHIN TEN MILES OF 22-07.00S 167-27.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 051000Z OCT 26.
Reading this warning
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
236 within 180 nm since 2000 · 5 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Gunnery exercises 132000Z to 160800Z sep in area within 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E2026-09-11
- Gunnery exercises 071930Z to 090400Z sep in area within ten miles of 22-42.00S 166-00.00E2026-09-07
- Gunnery exercises 242000Z to 280800Z aug in areas within: a. 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E2026-08-20
- Gunnery exercises 242000Z to 280800Z aug in areas within: a. 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-05.00E2026-08-17
- Gunnery exercises 301300Z sep to 021300Z oct in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E2024-09-26
- Gunnery exercises 100300Z to 100700Z apr in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E2024-04-07
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:23Z; source collection times vary.
Exercises
Gunnery, firing and naval exercise areas. All current military exercises →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.